Wired is doing a really good job of covering this truly shocking incident. Apparently a week ago a group of robotic cannons — capable of acquiring targets and reloading themselves — was being tested in a line on a firing range in South Africa. One unit unexpectedly swiveled too far to the left and opened up on the rest of the line. …

I couldn’t quite muster the energy to be upset, or even surprised, when Apple released a software update earlier this fall that crushed iPhones which users had modified in unauthorized ways. I mean, I feel bad for anybody whose phone got bricked, but honestly: what did they think was going to happen? Apple is very very cautious about …

I know you guys are all out there rolling around in your Orange Boxes and haven’t thought about Halo 3 in weeks. But I’m not done yet. Yeah, I know, a real games journalist would have whipped the Brutes on legendary by now, but I just got to the part where the Flood shows up. Shut up.

Every morning when I get to work the first thing I do is mash down the COMMAND key with my left thumb (we’re in Firefox/Mac-land here) and click on each of the websites on my toolbar. That opens each site in a different tab, the end result being a nice fat windowful of twenty tabs all loaded up with delicious morning content.

Whenever a new product comes out there’s a massive rush by the media to get the first review up. Which makes sense, because we-the-media are like that, but it’s also kinda lame, because everybody knows you have to live with a gadget for a while to truly grok its tiny electronic soul. That’s why I imagine a series …